Silvère Jarrosson is a painter. Born in 1993 in Paris, he is one of the most notable figures in French abstract painting of his generation. His uniqueness stems from an unconventional background: a graduate of the Paris Opera Ballet School and holder of a master’s degree in biology from Pierre and Marie Curie University, he approached painting in 2014 with a dual perspective: that of a dancer who understands what movement does to the body, and that of a biologist who comprehends how forms emerge and transform within living matter.
His method is both systematic and sensory: he builds up his canvases in successive layers of oil paint, then sands them down once dry, creating a visible “archeology” of the image’s formation. The result evokes natural phenomena—growth, erosion, sedimentary deposition—without ever directly reproducing them. His paintings speak of morphogenesis, the body, music, chance, and necessity.
His installations take over entire spaces: viewers move through them, their bodies becoming an integral part of the installation. This spatial dimension has led him to take on exceptional venues: in 2023, he created a 5-meter-by-6-meter painting specifically for the Opéra Bastille. In 2025, he was invited to exhibit at the Galerie de l'Évolution at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
His works are included in the collections of Société Générale, the Mobilier National, the Opéra National de Paris, and the Collection Lambert in Avignon. He has exhibited at the Villa Medici in Rome, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, and at institutions in France, the United States, Italy, Germany, China, Denmark, and Latvia. In October 2024, he returns to Art Basel Paris and Miami alongside Studio Artera, presenting thirteen paintings in a 200-square-meter space.
Silvère Jarrosson works with pictorial matter through movement and tools that allow him to delve inside, shaping it to give it its final form. The paint is tamed on the canvas with broad, tiny, abrupt, or precise gestures, according to the artist's intent.
